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LinkedIn has a person on their site that I do not know, never knew in my life that has been posting stuff about me and does not know me or anything about me. She must has me either confused with someone else or is trying to hurt me in some way for some unknown reason. She did it about 2 years ago and now is doing it again. I have contacted LinkedIn the first time when it happened and I thought they stopped it. Well the person is back doing it again. Not sure who is putting her up to it but LinkedIn is allowing it and I have no way to contact them since I am not on linkedin at this time. I was told by my sister that there is something out there again and that it is new. She sent it to me. At this point I will either have to go the police or try to sue this person for defamation of Character. I don't know what else to do. I am in the Military and work for a major company and this totally out of my control. Please help.

[Case: [protected]] Grace C Kiernan
I have been refunded only 6 months of deductions by Linked for a Business Premium Account I never signed up for. Please read details below.
Question : I have checked with my bank ANZ as advised by Linked IN and they have no record of my giving them permission to pay Linked in Business Premium a monthly fee of US $59.95 or $80 Australian for the last year. I will report this abuse of my bank account to the authorities if my money is not refunded in full.within 24 hours. See the Linked In refund policy below. I expect every deduction to be refunded immediately LinkedIn Premium Refund Policy.
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Linked in reply Question :
Response (11/23/2016 07:15 CST)
Hi Grace Catherine,

Per our policy, I've granted you two additional refunds. I'm very sorry, but you will need file a dispute with your credit card company for the additional charges.
Kind regards,
Lorrie
Customer Experience Advocate
Member (11/22/2016 18:09 CST)
I never checked the box for continued membership.I cancelled my subscription in 2015. Please check your records i live in China and am adamant you have defrauded me and accessed my bank account without my permission . i will be taking further action if you dont refund the year to date for every month you acceesed my account after i had cancelled over 10 months ago.

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On Wed, 23 Nov, 2016 at 1:01 am, LinkedIn Customer Support wrote:
Response (11/22/2016 11:01 CST)
Hi Grace Catherine,

I just received your request to cancel your Premium account and I've set your account to transition back to a Basic (free) account on November 22, 2016. I've also granted you a refund of $59.99 for the month of November. My apologies, but I'm not able to issue you a refund for the previous billing periods. This is based on the billing date and the following terms you agreed to when you checked the box to upgrade:

"Your premium account will renew automatically every month or every year based on your plan. Unless you cancel your premium account before the end of the current subscription period, you will be charged for the next period. All fees and charges are nonrefundable and there are no refunds or credits for partially used periods." These terms also include a link to our refund policy: https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/global/id/5704

With your Basic account, you can still maintain your profile and build your network. For a full list of what you get with each account, please check out the links on this page: https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/global/id/71

If you change your mind, you can always click "Upgrade Your Account" at the bottom of your profile page to get your Premium features back.

Please let me know if you have any other questions, I'm always happy to help.

Lorrie
Customer Experience Advocate
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Member (11/22/2016 02:54 CST)
Email: : [protected]@yahoo.com.au

Very poor customer service here. I posted a project to profinder which they took down claiming i'm trying to post a job for free. This is not true as the role was for a freelance brand consultant—perfect for profinder!. I am left to wonder if this is some type of bait and swtich tactic—get people to post on profinder then email the customer saying the project is really a job so they can then sell a job posting. When I delcline they wimply barred me from the profinder service. Highly suspect business practice

I've been job hunting for a couple of years now, without finding what I am looking for. I've always had bad experiences with pretty much all online employment websites of all types, and Linkedin is no exception.

My friends annoyed the hell out of me until I joined Linkedin, telling me "I would have no problem finding work" after joining. LIES!

I joined. The website is convoluted and difficult to figure out. A lot of what you need is not even there. If it is, I sure as hell couldn't find it! There is no job listings on there that I ever found. You find a lot of companies listed you can follow, but that is about it.

They have some chat threads you can post questions on, but that is a farce in itself. I posted two or three different questions on there, hoping for some insight or answers to help me find the job I have been looking for...but NO...the only people who posted replies were nothing but yappers and gossips posting "replies" that had absolutely NOTHING to do with my questions. If you've ever heard the phrase "people who talk just to hear themselves", then you know exactly what I mean.

This website is nothing more than a MySpace for bored employees...just someplace to collect as many "friends" as you possibly can, with absolutely NO intrinsic value of any kind.

*No real help in finding a job
*No job assistance of any kind
*No help from their "supporters"/chat threads
*No worthwhile value of any kind

What a waste of my time. Absolutely nothing "professional" about this website at all, except they are geared to lure in companies instead of teenagers.

Unless you are bored and just looking for another ###ic, useless chat site to get on, don't bother with this one. It is NO help in job searching at all.

I decided to try LinkedIn when I was searching for a job. I made a resume and tried to search some contacts myself. Later I was contacted by a person which offered me a job. We met in Skype and discussed all the details.
I was asked to transfer $200 to get all the materials. I did as they said. Now I know that was the biggest mistake I've ever made and I was simply scammed and robbed. But that moment I thought that there were no scammers on LinkedIn, that it was safe and etc.
LinkedIn is not that bad, but it's very unsafe and full of fakes. Beware!

First, Linkedin is full of fake job postings, full of outdated job ads and the platform of choice for false advertising.

Second: Remember: "if you're not paying for a service, you're not the client but the product being sold."

In the case of Linkedin, even when you pay, you are still the product being sold.

Third: Linkedin NOW BELONGS TO MICROSOFT (yes the monopoly and trust)

That being said, it is only 3 of their major issues:

1/ Total lack of privacy. They use your data to make money with it. If you think it's free, you are very naive.
2/ Total lack of privacy. I can see your full profile with a simple search on google, I don't even need to have an account or connect.
3/ Total lack of privacy. So called "premium" services mean people who pay can violate anyone else privacy and access to all the details they want about you (even if you think you're protected by your settings.

4/ For those "who have nothing to hide": countless identity thefts on linkedin, countless harassment stories from Linkedin employees. Countless "errors" when Linkedin serve itself in your bank account. Countless stories of blocked accounts, used by others to spam others etc...

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The real issues with services like Linkedin:

1/ Why on earth do we suddenly need to be all on file, classified, in little boxes like cans, potatoes and carrots?

2/ Why do we suddenly need to be on file all over the internet? Why do we have to spread our lives the world over?

3/ Who benefits from Linkedin? Think twice about it before thinking you benefit from it as a job seeker.
- To reformulate: Who's making money by having your personal data on file, online?
- Whose incompetent HR benefits from having access to all your work details
without even having to work for it or ask you in the first place?

4/ Why do you think the same companies are advertising the same jobs all year round? Why the ads never get removed even when it's obvious there is no real opening behind it?

- What is traffic on a website?
- How people like Linkedin monetize their "services"

Linkedin was hacked and my data was stolen by another user-contacts and content

I have called and emailed with linkedin for 6 months and my information is still with another user. Below is the latest email I sent linkedin customer service. They do not listen to what you say. They are incompetent!

Let me lay it all out again for you to better understand. I am asking that we speak since so much is being lost in the written word

1. My linkedin was hacked and someone stole my content and contacts (6 months ago)
2. I sent linkedin a message letting them know this and nothing was done proactively to correct this (4 times over 6 months)
3. I researched until I found the guy that has my entire profile—content and contacts (Took me 1 month to do since linkedin did not do)
- his name is wayne (Steven) power
4. I sent this to linkedin and you said you would have to investigate
5. I sent you my passport and several other items to confirm I am who I say I am
6. You sent me an email saying for me to confirm my password on my account, saying I am wayne! Not accurate. My name is dr. Steven a. Seay
7. I again sent you an email saying I am not this guy and to restore my account to its previous status.
8. I received another email from you saying you are going to close my account!

Here is what I want to happen:
1. Restore my account (I sent you 9 screen shots of what my account used to look like and is now being used by someone else)
- this includes content and contacts

2. Delete wayne (Steven) power's account as it is not his, it is mine. He is a fraud and does not exist. He is using my account to email my contacts for money

What do we need to do to make this any easier for you to understand? Are all customers treated like I am being treated? Is linkedin racist anf treating me like this because I am a person of color?

Dr. Steven seay

If you are considering using any of the paid linkedin services, let me stop you from making this mistake.

After entering an agreement with them to help grow our business and paying them close to $11k, our experience with their development team has been abysmal, the results our company saw from their supposed services were non existent, and after numerous requests to speak with members of their staff to review our service agreement we received absolutely no response.

Linkedin was not responsive to multiple requests from my company for servicing, we failed to receive a single lead from our investment, and when we asked linkedin for a review of the services multiple times there was never a response.

By choosing to use their services we invested a great deal of capital (Specifically $10, 580.76) and time into what we were sold from them. After we signed the contract and paid the money, the only time we ever heard from them was when they were asking for more money. We cut our losses and ceased using their services due to lack of results and no communication on their part.

About a year after we ceased using their services, we began to receive collection calls from linkedin.In our communications with them we requested verification of the debt, a copy of the original contract, a list of leads generated by their services for us and made the offer to enter into mediation on what linkedin considered still owing to them from us as the contract with them required.

We made this request on multiple occasions and were never provided anything. I thought it was odd that they were not willing to provide any documentation so we continued to call their offices and left messages. We never received a response from linkedin regarding our requests, just more collection calls demanding money.

It eventually got to the point that we told linkedin we wanted a refund for the monies that were already paid to them. We also again told them that we were happy to enter into mediation with them regarding this matter. After this we received no further communications until they sent their goons from a law firm, law office of kenneth freed to harras us. These guys had no interest in resolving the matter, called us all sorts of names and told us we were "ridiculous" for not just paying the second half of an agreement that linkedin never fulfilled.

I would not recommend this company to anybody for their paid services. Try calling their offices and see what happens! They robbed us out of close to $11k, refused any accountability, and then they came looking for more money. When their only response is "because you signed on the dotted line", sorry but your contract does not give you the right to defraud businesses out of thousands of dollars.

Linkedin corporation gets rid of people for any reason... And they lie too!

I was a legitimate member of linkedin with a profile for several years, however, during the past year, they have illegally, purposely and deliberately blocked my account with no honest reason given!

I know that I did nothing illegal on their website!

The only thing that I did was contact other members which is what you are supposed to do when you are legitimately networking and send out only legitimate messages to other members like myself and it was up to the other members if they wanted to communicate with me and/or be my friend or not!

Question: what is wrong or illegal with that?

Answer: ask the linkedin court of law?

It was the same as when I would receive their messages asking me the same thing to be their friend and of course, it was my choice of whether I wanted to accept them or not!

This honest way of communicating on linkedin seemed to bother the people who help run their website and they would come back to me and tell me to only add people who know me which is so stupid and ridiculous because I was getting tons of friendship and/or business requests from people on linkedin and I never let it bother me since linkedin is a networking website and their sole purpose of their existance is to allow their members to network with one another!

It is a personal choice to become someones's friend or not and this is certainly not a legal, nor legitimate reason to block somebody's account if somebody does not respond back to me and/or does not wish to be my friend and/or networking connection on linkedin.

In any case, these losers blocked my account and refused to let me create another account.

Believe me, I have tried!

Please note: whenever I contact them to ask them to fix my account, they respond by giving me a form letter without the true reason of why they blocked my account?

Of course, they never tell the truth!

Please note: I hope you do not think that linkedin offers real live, customer service help on the phone or via chat?

Answer: maybe in the next lifetime!

Please note: remember, they can get rid of you for any reason... Without telling you the true reason!

Not only that, but they also illegally stole my profile that I created and never gave it back to me!

I did ask for my profile back on numerous occasions and they have refused to send it back to me!

Today, being wednesday, may 11, 2016, I just had enough with them and their abuse, lies, games, etc. And so I wrote them a letter today on their website and told them that if they are going to keep on discriminating and prejudicing me like they have been doing so far by illegally preventing me from creating and/or using my previous profile on linkedin and refusing to return my profile that I wrote about myself back to me, then I will take them to small claims court and we can deal with it there.

I also told them that I am publishing several negative reviews about them on many social media websites with documentation so that everybody knows what they did to me and can therefore see linkedin's true colors from my experience and perspective!

Enclosed, in the attachments, please find seven (7) pages of communications letters and/or documentation that I have had with linkedin for your review and further reference. Thank you.

Final thoughts: thank god I do not make money from linkedin or else it would be a major disaster, but I will see them in small claims court in order to recover my profile that I created and wrote!

Linkedin really sucks!

Either is operated by robots or folks who have no understanding of the english language. I was updating a friends account that somehow had 2 linked in profiles. The email address was known on the profile we wished to delete, the email was not known on the profile we wanted to keep.

I screen shot both profiles, marked one as keep and the other one as delete, then instructed them to assign the known email address to the profile we wanted to keep. No less than 10 messages later after they continuously asked which profile would you like to keep and which to delete, they delete the profile we asked them to keep. Instructions were as plain as the nose on your face and they could not follow directions to save their life. We ended up having to delete the profile they kept and start from scratch. If linked in was not so vital to ones professional image, I would have nothing to do with them.

I have a small business and I decided to advertise a job opportunity on LinkedIn. They had a guarantee that you would get your $300.00 back if you get atleast 1 applicant after 30 days. 30 days later, I had 2 applicants, but now they are refusing to give me a refund. I was told they never mentioned anything about giving back the money. I told that it is written on their site, but they just ignored me. Companies who use fine print and technicalities to get out of their "guarantee" promises have no business making false promises. I will never use this website again and if you also have a small business then go another direction.

My complaint is for a jamal I hasan he works at suntrust 1801 west broad street and had linkedin account and is a very rude person and upon dealing with him very shady business man, he recentally rented at house to friends of mine. He said was a realtor of va association, but upon further. Review he was not active for not paying dues upon further review they realized there lease is a old form out dated to the code of virginia realtors association he is misrepresting himself and using his job power to do what he feels is just, he also sent them a couple threating messages about either pay or get out property in 2 days which we all know has to be done threw the courts, he also showed up at the property banging on the door demanding the tenants give them another check

I am really pissed up with linkedin, I just signed up and the site told me try one month premium and I signed up for it. Before my trial period was going to end I canceled my Premium account still I don't know how you guys kept me in and was charging my account. Today only I noticed it if you see on my account history you will see I never made any posts or updates because I never ever used it. Please Linkedin is a big name stop fooling people like this. I want my money back. Please help.

LinkedIn has restricted my account without proof. Their barely coherent customer service messages merely say something about people stating that I asked them to connect but they did not know me.

Multiple times I asked for proof via a list of these instances. They produced nothing. Highly suspicious.

What's really happening is that they fraudulently restrict accounts based on a bait and switch when their system recognizes that a user has found a way to connect with people for which LinkedIn wants to charge extra. Might be time for a class action.

Vicky Dejean has two (2) self-employed businesses. She incorporate a janitorial and painting business. On August 4, 2014, I (along with six (6) other workers) was hired to go to Baton Rouge, La. We painted apartments at Campus Crossing (LSU). As of today's date - we have not gotten paid.
Since this incident, I've discovered she does not pay her employers. In fact, I don't know if she's license to run these businesses. Therefore, I wonder whether she report her income with IRS. Please investigate this matter. The above information is her data. Contact me at [protected]@gmail.com or [protected] for additional information.
Any assist is greatly appreciated.
Thank You,
Evelyn Reney

hello im mohammad from iran
contect people world and the time best
add working

[protected]@gmail.com

LinkedIn harvests your private emails and sends you bogus notifications even AFTER you delete your profile. I had to delete my profile after a short time because they sent me emails to my brand-new work email that I hadn't had for even a week, almost causing me to lose my brand new job in a high security position. Even my own mother doesn't have access to that email, but LinkedIn harvested it within a few days of its existence without my consent or knowledge. Last week I got an "invitation" - which was also sent to my private work email that they were never given - from the person who had my job before me. I am absolutely certain that this person would not invite me to be her friend, uh because I have her job now!? Had to have our IT tech block their URL from our servers at my office because of security breach. LinkedIn is nothing but a scam to harvest your private, unpublished emails and sell your information to third parties. There is a reason they don't have a phone number, because it's a scam and scammers don't want you to call. They still continued to send me notifications months after I deleted my profile. They pretend to do something to resolve the issue "send us this, send us that, blah blah blah" but they never do. Finally had to also block all their "do-not-reply" addresses from all of my private emails as well, even the emails I never gave them.They are stalkers. Check around on other sites on the web, they have a terrible customer service rating and I believe they are currently involved in a class-action for this very reason of unauthorized use of private, unpublished emails. They are unbelievable. Wish I had never heard of them.

Shikha mathur - linkedin

Shikha mathur from linkedin is sending out a massive amount of cut-and-paste spam with very bad, broken english.

This is not something I expect for a recruiter from linkedin in mountain view, california.

Shikha mathur: sr. Technical recruiter at linkedin (Smathur [at] linkedin.com)

S has been on linkedin for two years now 2010 - present. Previously shikha mathur was at yahoo! Where she lasted only a few months before she was sent out packing.

Don't spam me and learn to write english.

Linkedin id:-
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wony-shin/43/497/535

wony shin
iPhone Application Development Talent
Zhuhai, Guangdong, China Computer Software

The above fraud person - odesk ID as follows:-
yongyong won -
https://www.odesk.com/users/~~83027a8469826679

is a big time cheater. He is fraud and he cheated many customers on odesk. Since may, 2013 - Odesk blocked him from getting new projects. He is fraud, never trust his words.

this lady is really pathetic, she goes after girl associates in the Macy's stores that she is jealous of and gets them fired without any solid reason, during her interviews she has an annoying laugh and weird way of talking, that makes the person admit to anything just to get out of the office, highly unprofessional and she was kicked out of the Florida Market because of her horrible methods and her laziness, she would often pass gas during the interview as well, I was the poor Loss prevention that had to be the witness, and she usually depends on Loss prevention's to get her cases cause on her own she's useless, she also got a guy fired from Macy's in Dadeland Florida for NOT going on a date with her...I remember how the very thing she would get people fired for she did herself.